SPATIAL VISION
The Bamboo Village is based on a spatial vision. This establishes a base from which social dynamics, collaborative projects and experiences of celebration can grow.
The spatial vision is crafted by:
* Watersheds
* Glades
* Balanced Density
* Sculptural Architecture
* Bamboo
WATERSHEDS
The Ekawa territory has a number of beautifully self-contained watersheds, ideal for an experience of life that is fully immersed in nature.
Listening to the geography, we can live in a space where levels of light and sound are protected. Here a “new normal” is palpable.
GLADES
Within each watershed there are several glades. Each glade is an opening within a forest shared between like-minded neighbours, where a home space can grow roots.
The softness of being held by the forest offers us the opportunity to open. This offers privacy for family life and a deep proximity to the vibrancy of nature.
BALANCED DENSITY
The Bamboo Village explores a fine balance between:
- the full experience of immersion in wild nature; and
- the experience of proximity to like-minded neighbours
This brings us into connection with ourselves and with the lands we inhabit.
SCULPTURAL ARCHITECTURE
Sculptural architecture is not a thing, it's a process. As a family chooses a glade, we offer to facilitate a process where a spatial gesture emerges. The intention is to initiate the design of a home which brings a cascading of aliveness into the experience of the everyday.
Inhabiting living forms made of living materials dynamises our subtle bodies. Rudolf Steiner writes that sculptural architecture is “the spiritualisation of matter”.
BAMBOO
This strong, flexible, locally abundant material is also an incredible carbon sink. It is the ideal material for the creation of scultpural architecture. Harvesting poles regularly from a grove encourages growth and helps the groves to expand.
With a view towards the future, we are planting various new types of bamboo not only as a sustainable building material and to expand the existing groves, but also to stabilise the capacity of damaged farmland to retain water and restore its vitality.